Guest

I am having problems with the picture 'freezing' for a few seconds at a time when watching TV through the Sky+ box. I got an engineer to take a look when I had a freeze of about 6 hours on certain channels just before Xmas and although the problem has not re-occurred to that extent since, it still regularly freezes for a few seconds (about twice every night). Any ideas why this might be happening?? The box is under 12 months old so I will be reporting the fault to Sky again but I would like an idea of what the problem might be in case the engineer can't work it out for himself!

Well-known Member

Well if it's both then one thing they have in common is the mpegII decoder which if for whatever reason is not performing at 100% the result is dropped frames.
On a PC this would make the video being played stutter/jump which sounds similar to what you are experiencing on SKY+.

If there was a problem with the incoming signal either from the dish or off the hard drive you would be seeing audio and video breakup which is totally different from a frame freezing then restarting a couple of seconds later.

"The Nac Mac Feegle are, well, theyre like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times."Gatecast